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HSK
traffic police (abbr. for 交通警察)
HSK 3
to warn / to admonish
HSK 5
police; police officer
HSK 3
to sound an alarm / to report sth to the police
HSK 5
Hong Kong police
port police
civil police / PRC police / abbr. for 人民警察
HSK 6
traffic camera / speed camera / closed-circuit TV police surveillance
police cordon / alert level
to be on the alert / vigilant / alert / on guard / to warn
HSK 7-9
to dispatch police to the scene of crime, accident etc
buoy / navigation marker
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canadian federal and national police force / Mounties
traffic police
alarm (e.g. burglar or fire alarm) / warning device
civil police / PRC police
police and criminals / (genre of fiction) crime
police
Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙 published in 1624
Criminal Investigation Bureau
fire alarm
to assault a police officer
warning / early warning
coast guard
police station / police department / police headquarters
(fire) alarm / alert signal / alarm / alert / warning
constable; police officer
HSK 7-9
police car
HSK 7-9
riot police / riot squad
Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP, aka CAPF)
Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization)
(Tw) public prosecutors, the police, and the Investigation Bureau (abbr. for 檢察官警察調查局|检察官警察调查局)
Europol (European Police Office)
SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) / riot police / abbr. for 特種警察|特种警察
Internet police (abbr. for 網絡警察|网络警察)
police force / police officers
road traffic policing
criminal police / member of the criminal police
China Coast Guard
armed fighters / armed police / militia
to stand guard over / (security) guard
police on trains / train marshal
armed police
vigilance / alertness
police rank
a policewoman
policeman's round / patrol / beat
police department / police station / abbr. of 警察局
police gear
police dog
early warning system
hazard lights
plain-clothed policeman
perceptive / astute / sharp / sharp-witted / vigilant / alert
warning sign / police call
the military and the police / military alert (announcing the approach of the enemy)
National Guard (United States)
lit. punish one, warn one hundred (idiom) / fig. to make an example of sb / also written 懲一儆百|惩一儆百
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
RoboCop (movie)
guard / garrison
mounted police (on horse or motorbike)
police officer; policeman (general term for any police officer) / police constable (lowest rank in mainland China and Hong Kong)
(of police, fire brigade etc) to receive a report of an incident
police uniform
policewoman
police / police cadres
(of police etc) to deal with an emergency incident
police station
police station (abbr. for 警察署)
stun baton
to be on guard; alert / vigilance; alertness
Hong Kong Police Force (since 1997)
to serve as a warning (idiom)
police patrol / patrol officer / (old) police officer
alarm / alert / warning signal
criminal police (abbr. for 刑事警察)
border police
(Tw) police officer; policeman
secret police
garrison area / command
National Police Agency (Japan)
on the alert / keenly aware
to warn / to alert / warning / cautionary
alarm bell
HSK 7-9
local or neighborhood policeman
siren
police classification / subdivision of policing activities (traffic, border guard, criminal etc)
Royal Hong Kong Police Force (1969-1997)
to warn / a warning sign
police truncheon
National Police Agency (Taiwan) / abbr. for 內政部警政署|内政部警政署
siren
bailiff
to warn / to alert / to be on the alert / to stand guard / sentinel
to be alert
police badge
community police officer; police officer responsible for a particular neighborhood or community
coastguard
United States Coast Guard

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